Author: Jonathan Parle
Date: 22:07:15 02/13/02
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On February 13, 2002 at 19:15:58, ALI MIRAFZALI wrote: >On February 12, 2002 at 23:31:20, Jonathan Parle wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>I found a press release from Titus Interactive relating to their upcoming title >>Virtual Kasparov for Gameboy Advance: >> >>http://gameboy.gamezone.com/news/02_06_02_10_56AM.htm >> >> >>The game now gets a mention on the Titus website front page but does not have a >>link as yet. Release date is purported to be around a month away... >THis should be interesting since the proceessor speed of GBA is 16 mhz.The >program should easily reach 2200 elo.The chess program for the old game boy was >very weak. It certainly will be interesting. It will certainly be a lot stronger than me which is all I really care about. I agree the original Gameboy program was weak, however I would attribute this only to the very slow Z80 processor rather than the program itself. Of all my dedicated machines up to around 2000 ELO, the humble Chessmaster for Gameboy (imo) plays by far the best positional chess and human like game of the lot. I think the mere 100 odd nodes per second processing speed of the original Gameboy program is the primary reason for it's weakness. Most programs are playing many, many times faster than this. When I want an enjoyable game of chess, I'm still happy to play against the humble Gameboy. I would have loved to see the original Gameboy program simply ported to the Gameboy Advance. I feel this would then be a very strong program reminiscent in playing style to the Mephisto Montreaux.
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